Brake-beam.



' EMT @Tewerafrnnr CHARLES rRANoisnUNrO-ON, or omesso, ILLINOIS, As'sIoNon To onioaeo nAiLWAY no UiPMnNr COMPANY, or omesso; iLLI- Nois, a consoler-irren or iLLiNois. l L 'f .essere Application led February 26, 1906. Serial No. 303,054.

Figure 1 is a sectional view through the end ofthe brake-beam, showing my improved liller-block in position. Fig. 2 is a sectionalview on the line 2 270i Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is a sectional view on the line 3 3 of Fig. l,

This invention relates to a newr and useful limprovement in brake-beams, the object bel ing to utilize a flanged compression lmember and a fiat plate tension member, the end of theilanged compression member containing a thrust-block in the form of a liller, which provides a seat for the compression member member.

and around which thrust-block and compression member theV tension member may be bent in a gentle curve, so as to avoid abrupt or sharp corners at the end of the tension In the drawings, l indicates the compression member of a brake-beam, said compres! sion member being in the 'form of a channel with its flanges presented forwardly or in wardly with respect to the'wheel.

2 isa thrust-block, preferably formed hol lovT for the sake of li htness, which thrustblock fits within the channel and has lateral extensions 3 projecting over the i'i'anges of the channel compression member.

4 is a iiat plate tensionmember which lies against the thrust-block and the iianges of the compression member and is bent at its end around said thrust-block, said tension member terminating at the back oi the compression member. 5 is a socket in the brake-head which 1s slipped over the parte -and Whichserves to.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 19, 1906.

hold the end of the tension member in position.

6 is a rivet passing through the socket or sleeve portion of the brake-head and the lianges of the compression member.

l am aware that minor changes in the construction, arrangement, and combination of Y the several parts of mydevice can be made and substituted for those herein shown and described Without in the least departing from Athe nature and principle of my invention. y

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, and is desired to be secure by Letters l?atent, is l, I ln a trussed brake-beam, the combination with a flanged compression memberyof 'a thrust-block :itting within the i'ianged compression member and having lateral enten-A sions overlapping the ends of the flanges of said compression member, a tension member whose end is bent around said thrust-block and terminates behind the compression mem ber, vand a bral e-headg substantially as described.

2. ln a brake-beam, the combination with a channeled compression' member, a thrustl block itting between the lianges oi said compression member-and having lateral projections extending over thefends of the flanges 'of' said compression-member, va tension member fitting upon the flanges of the compres# sion member andi upon said thrust-block, and bent around said thrustblocl and said com pressioni-member, a brake-head having a sleeve portion which is rdesigned tope slip edl in position on the end ofthe beam, and a 'astoning device for .holding said brake-head in place; substantially as described.

j ln testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature, in the presence of two Witnesses,A

this 20th day oi February, 1906'.

cruises riuNois iiUN'roeN... f

v"i/Vitnesses'I l "i E. T. WALKER,

Fnnnnnrcn T. DE LONG. 

